It's Sunday afternoon as I write this. I can't publish this manually, because if I've read my call sheet correctly, I'm currently playing Dr. Isaac Parrish on Eureka. If we're on schedule, I'm working in a scene with Erica, Colin, and Neil. If my experience on the show so far is any indication, ...

OMG how timely is this?! I had the following conversation with my 12 year old just a few hours ago:
Me: When I was your age we had Saturday chores and we couldn’t go outside, watch TV or play video games until they were done.
Son: uh huh…what video games did you have back then – PONG? No wonder you didn’t mind doing chores.
Me: I had more than Pong.
Son: Right. You had an Atari. Woohoo!
Me: I had a 2600. I had Asteroids and Qbert and ET.
Son: ET? What’s that?
Me: It was kinda like a sucky spaced out Pitfall
Thanks for posting this, now I can show him a picture! =D

Reader G.M. e-mailed this picture and said, "How the f**k I ever believed that THIS was E.T., I'll never know -- but I still played it for hours and hours." The picture unlocked a memory I haven't thought about in a long time, but wanted to share: Around 1982 or 1983, before City Walk at Un...